Posted on 09/15/2023 6:53:44 AM PDT by SJackson
[Order Jamie Glazov’s new best-selling and critically-acclaimed book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Perhaps the greatest service of Barack Obama’s True Legacy, the recently published collection of penetrating essays on the Obama presidency by a number of knowledgeable and trenchant authors, edited by Jamie Glazov, is its contribution to collective memory.
President Obama’s assault on Americans’ constitutional rights and protections as well as on the nation’s constitutionally defined governmental institutions and their respective authority entailed myriad particulars. It included undermining of First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and religious freedom. It extended to usurpation of the legislative authority of Congress and disregard for the constitutional authority of the Supreme Court.
In addition, Obama compromised the rule of law and protection of rights more broadly. He ignored the findings of lower federal courts. He subverted federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, and other departments of the federal government, to illegal politicization and lawless attacks on perceived political enemies. He promoted federal intrusion in and subversion of state and local law enforcement, also in the service of political ends.
The collective impact of Obama’s abuses of power, the “transformation” of America that he so often promised, was the creation of a less democratic, post-constitutional, authoritarian nation. Consistent with his pursuit of this transformed America, Obama, throughout his presidency, lent his support to and openly advocated for groups and individuals, domestic and foreign, associated with anti-American, anti-democratic, authoritarian ideologies, particularly of the pro-communist and Islamist variety.
Domestically, he appointed communist and pro-communist individuals to government posts and invited organizations with the same sympathies to a seat at policy-defining tables. In a similar vein, he labeled virtually any expression of concern over Islamist and jihadist threats to the nation as Islamophobic and quashed programs that educated senior military officers and federal and other law enforcement groups about such threats.
Abroad, he threw his administration’s support to communist and pro-communist governments and government candidates in South America, undermined pro-democratic forces there, and played a major role in the seizing of power by far-left opponents throughout the continent. He also accommodated post-communist Russian authoritarianism. With regard to Islamism and jihad, Obama promoted the Muslim Brotherhood, the fountainhead of modern Sunni anti-Western Islamism. He did so in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood was born, and elsewhere in the Arab world, where supporters of the Brotherhood challenged existing governments. Additionally, he sought closer relations with nations in which allies of the Muslim Brotherhood were in control, as in Qatar. He also pursued closer relations with the Shi’ite Islamists of Iran, most notably in his drive for a pact with Iran that would end in that nation possessing nuclear weapons. His Iranian strategy proceeded even as Iran continued to call for America’s destruction, continued to kill Americans, and provided financial and military support to numerous Middle East groups also engaged in killing Americans as well as in targeting America’s allies.
Certainly, any American who was paying attention during Obama’s eight years as president has some sense of the destructiveness he wrought domestically, on American freedoms and American governmental institutions, as well as in the arena of foreign affairs and America’s relations with its adversaries and its friends. But the passage of time, together with the ignorance of most regarding key details, inevitably leads to a vagueness in people’s understanding. The great majority of those who contemplate the current sorry state of the nation now recognize only in general terms Obama’s central role in bringing about our present difficulties. This is true even of those who see in the depredations of the Biden presidency a continuation of Obama’s tenure. (As Joseph Klein notes in his contributions to the present volume, “out of the top 100 positions filled in the Biden White House during Biden’s first 100 days in office, seventy-four previously had worked in the Obama administration.”) But if we are to reverse our losses and reclaim our freedoms and the integrity of our institutions, a more granular understanding of how we got here is an invaluable tool.
That is what Barack Obama’s True Legacy provides. Whether addressing Obama’s hostility to and undermining of American freedoms and institutions (as in essays by John Drew, Trevor Loudon, Stephen Coughlin, Matthew Vadum, and Joseph Klein) or his promotion of anti-democratic forces worldwide and pursuit of foreign policies inimical to American interests and those of our traditional allies (as in pieces by Daniel Greenfield, Raymond Ibrahim, Clare Lopez, Jeff Nyquist, Robert Spencer, and Dov Lipman), the collection is a granular explication of the path that led us to where we are.
For this reason, the volume should be seen not only as an important tour d’horizon of the Obama presidency and what it wrought, but as an invaluable reference tool providing detailed reminders of how our nation has been brought to its present dire straits.
As the race baiter in chief he may have permanently cemented the racial divide.
The core was taking all the power available to the DOJ/FBI (which of which was created by GWBush - and turning it into America’s KGB
Gay marriage opened the door to further deviance and filth throughut the nation, including all the transgender and gender ideology that would never have raised its ugly head had obama not emboldened them to do so., and it started schools on their journey to take control over the kids away from their parents at warp speed.
He taught them that they need not fear retribution beczuse the left own and or control all the power, and this set off a number of filthy foul agendas like never before.
you look around at how brazen and in our faces the left have become, a d it shows that the left learned their lesson well, knowing that they have nothing to fear from the right in government.
I agree that Obama is an immoral, unethical and anti-American douchebag, but he isn’t the evil genius many people think he is. Rather, he is simply the smooth talking front mam for the deeply entrenched cabal of super wealthy elites in government, banking and business. Obama is an intellectual midget without without a signal original idea of his own. He gets his marching orders and his talking points from the people that have protected, groomed and supported him his entire life.
If we lived in a fair and honest world, O’Bama’s ass would be in prison.
The president claim to fame was not being scary to white women. That was a really high bar for 2008.
Lets see, in 2024 the canidates claim to fame is being so old that nothing really gets done outside of what the DC beltway wants done. So not being scary to white women inside the DC beltway.
Exactly! Jan 6th is an example of that fact. The left are smashing anyone who tries to stand up against the lefts corruption, using the fbi and other agencies to do so.
Obama also pushed the Perverted, Sexually Deviant Fudge Packing Homo Agenda to what we have today.
Important Bkmrk
They along with many in the “right” are after Ken Paxton in Texas via using weaponized impeachment. Today will tell if they succeed in their quest. FYI, the “right” in this case is led by the Bush Cartel who has been as bad as anyone on the left IMO.
Thank the Lord we have Tony Buzbee in Texas, an ex-Democrat that see the truth of things.
Recently, according to a Harvard professor of linguistics one of the most insulting things you could say to people is the endearing statement “it is what it is”, the meaning is that you don’t care about anybody because they’re nothing to you or they don’t really matter. Oddly enough, it was one of BHO’s favorite one-liners.
I witnessed it becoming relatively common parlance during those Obama years and I don’t know what it was about that saying at the time but it really didn’t strike me as anything other than an insult. I wasn’t sure though. It smacked of pathological rudeness. And now my instinctive reaction towards that particular quip have been confirmed.
That is absolutely true. I’ve heard many people say that Obama is the puppet master of the Biden regime, but he’s not that driven (lazy by his own account), and definitely not an evil genius (smart people don’t redact their academic records). He’s just an evil pervert.
What else would “fundamental transformation” mean?
The first person I ever heard say “it is what it is” was Rush Limbaugh.
When Obama said in five days they will begin too fundamentally change the US, no one ... not even the Lame Street Media asked ... what does that mean? ... and after that he said: I have a pen and a phone and went onto fundamentally change the US. New he is pretty much idolized and I’m sure he is the power behind the Biden throne ... and I’ll also bet before it’s over Michelle will be the Democrats’ choice for the 2024 Presidential election.
Bump.
the Destroyer...
Book title should be...Shutting Down America...A Guide
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